Lagullande's Back in the Game Buffet for 2022

[Lagullande]

I skipped the Buffet in 2021, but am hoping to get back in the game for 2022 (although I am still working on 2020's!)

[Lagullande]

Challenge #1: 2022 Old & New Classics
Read: 12/12

Old School (pre-1900)
✔️1. Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (1794) 15/1/22
✔️2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848) 27/12/22
✔️3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856) 30/12/22

New School (1900-1999)
✔️1. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (1905) 5/2/22
✔️2. Dishonoured Bones by John Trench (1954) 9/1/22
✔️3. Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 12/12/22

Wild Cards
✔️1. Neverhome by Laird Hunt 5/1/22
✔️2. The Chimes by Anna Smaill 16/1/22
✔️3. A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale 13/3/22
✔️4. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson 31/5/22
✔️5. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber 31/1/22
✔️6. The White Van by Patrick Hoffman 6/2/22

Alternates
A-1. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before
A-2. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before
A-3. A Nobel laureate I haven't read before

[Lagullande]

Challenge #2: Second Place or Worse
Read: 6/7

Old School (pre-1900)
✔️1. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (June 2021 poll) read 8/12/24
2.

Candidates:

Barchester Towers
Little Dorrit

New School (1900-1999)
✔️1. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Jan 2020 poll) read 23/1/22
✔️2. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (Oct 2021 poll) read 12/12/22

Candidates:
The Big Sleep
Regeneration

Short Story/Novella
✔️1. The Prophet (Mar 2019 poll) read 30/1/22
✔️2. Hadji Murat (Apr 2020 poll) read 16/3/22

Candidates:
The Kreutzer Sonata


Quarterly Long Read
✔️1. Armadale (3Q20219 poll) read 31/3/22

Candidates:
Our Mutual Friend
Sketches by Boz

[Lagullande]

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium Challenge
I'm going to do (mostly) classic crime for my decade/century challenge. Still to decide exactly which decade I'm going for.
Read: 8/10

1940 Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate
1941 The Turquoise Shop by Frances Crane
1942 Laurels are Poison by Gladys Mitchell
✔️1943 Dead Reckoning by Francis Bonnamy [14/12/22]
1944 The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham OR They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
✔️1945The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford [8/6/22]
✔️1946 The Case of the Second Chance by Christopher Bush [3/8/22]
1947 Chatterton Square by E.H. Young
✔️1948 Nest of Vipers by Tod Claymore [13/11/22]
✔️1949 My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon [24/11/22]
✔️1950 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith [29/3/22]
✔️1951 A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor [30/11/22]
✔️1952 Maigret's Revolver by Georges Simenon [14/6/22]

[Lagullande]

Challenge #8 - Does the Passage of Time Make a Difference?

Select 10 books from any single year of interest, then select 10 more from 100, 50, or 25 years earlier, for a total of 20 books. List your choices for other members to explore. The challenge is to successfully read 10 of the 20 books selected, five from your year of choice and five from the earlier year chosen.

My chosen year is 1966. I haven't decided which earlier year to read yet - they all look enticing.

Read:
1/10 (1966)
0/10 (1941)
0/10 (1916)
1/10 (1866)

1966
Flowers for Algernon
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
✔️The Fixer read 23/1/22
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Third Girl
The Jewel in the Crown
Silence
The Adventurers by Harold Robbins
The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
Capable of Honor by Allen Drury
The Double Image by Helen MacInnes
Tell No Man by Adela Rogers St. Johns
The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss
All in the Family by Edwin O'Connor

25 Years Before: 1941
Hangover Square
The Turquoise Shop
Mildred Pierce
Evil Under the Sun
Frenchman's Creek
The Wife of Martin Guerre
Death and the Dancing Footman


50 Years Before: 1916
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Greenmantle
Understood Betsy
Xingu and Other Stories
Uneasy Money


100 Years Before: 1866
Crime and Punishment
✔️Armadale read 31/3/22
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
The Gambler
Wives and Daughters(serialised 1864-1856, first published as a book in 1866)
Felix Holt: The Radical
The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers
Broad Arrow Jack
A Long Fatal Love Chase

[Ila]

Great lists! All the best with your challenges

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Lots of good reads here and many that I need to become familiar with. Welcome to the buffet!

[Lagullande]

Challenge #1: 2022 Old & New Classics - COMPLETED 30/12/22

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Congratulations for getting in under the wire, Lagullande. Happy reading in 2023.